On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:38:10 +0200 Philipp Gesang <philipp.ges...@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> Hi John! > > ···<date: 2013-07-26, Friday>···<from: john Culleton>··· > > > I am tryihg to follow the wiki on "Fonts in Luatex." It suggests the > > following statement for Linux systems: > > > > export OSFONTDIR="/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts" > > > > But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used: > > > > export OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts" > > > > The net effect of this statement was to wipe out all my text fonts > > used with XFCE4 or KDE, at least when I use my regular user > > signon. I examined my /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile, @HOME/.bashrc > > files and deleted or commented out all references to OSFONTDIR. I > > still have no gui fonts. > > Can you clarify what you mean by “wipe out”? Were the font files > deleted? Are other kinds of fonts (e.g. bitmap/pfb) still > working? > > > If anyone has any suggestions on how I can revive my gui fonts that > > would be welcome. Only my regular user signon is affected, But I > > really want to know what kind of OSFONTDIR statement I can use that > > won't wipe out my gui fonts. > > OSFONTDIR is a tex specific (kpathsea and Context) variable that > I don’t think is used by the system (fontconfig, desktop > environment). While you were fiddling with font paths, is it > possible that you accidentally modified something else, like > ~/.config/fontconfig or /etc/fonts/* ? > > Best regards, > Philipp When signed on as my usual username and I fire up the gui I get squares instead of characters. It works OK if I sign on as an alternate user or root. I'll try the sudo fc-cache -fv route and see what happens. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
